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Holy cow. That's a real Vega?!


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Stunning!

I thought the Vega had a molded plywood fuselage. Is this a special military variant that used metal instead, or did Lockheed simply switch to metal later?

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Steve Nelson wrote:
Stunning!

I thought the Vega had a molded plywood fuselage. Is this a special military variant that used metal instead, or did Lockheed simply switch to metal later?

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The Y1C-12 was a DL-1, which was a metal alloy version of the Vega 5C built by the Detroit Aircraft Corporation.
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Now if someone would restore/rebuild/make new wooden Vegas.
I've heard the rumor about someone naling tghe concrete fuselage molds...:)

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Thought you would all like this picture. Not a Y1C-12 but a C-101
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